Reviews
April 6, 2010
Brain Waves: Samantha Harvey’s The Wilderness 1
by Adam Gallari
From The Wilderness’s bravura opening, recounted from the navigation seat of an old bi-plane soaring to dizzying heights, Harvey outlines the trajectory of all that is to follow.
March 26, 2010
You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe?: Rebecca Jo Plant’s ‘Mom’ 3
by Nicole Rudick
Rebecca Jo Plant’s history of modern American motherhood shows that the high price paid by moms today is nothing new.
March 19, 2010
Nabokov’s Scraps: The Original of Laura 6
by Kevin Frazier
Dmitri Nabokov has taken some weirdly disproportionate hits for the aspect of the book that deserves the greatest praise.
March 17, 2010
The Edge, Too Has Its Edge: Reading Uwe Johnson in New York 1
by Fridolin Schley
Uwe Johnson never quite knew what to do with the self-satisfied authority of superlatives. He was interested in the inconclusive, the ambiguous, and preferred observing things from the edge.
March 16, 2010
Millennium Bridge: John Jodzio’s If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home 1
by Adam Gallari
Jodzio’s reality is a cruel one, but he is not a writer who revels in this cruelty; rather he respects his characters, and manages to find beauty in even the most dire moments, to elicit empathy towards some of the most frigid beings imaginable.
March 12, 2010
Unaccommodated Man: Robert Stone’s Fun With Problems 3
by Tatjana Soli
Robert Stone is like the friend who orders a round of stiff drinks, holds your hand, and looks into the abyss with you.
